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Reading 5.1
Food Chains and Webs
Vocabulary
Bit of Everything
100

sea birds that build their nests in the cliffs along the
coasts of the ocean

What is a Puffin?

100
This is the original source of energy in a food web.
What is the sun?
100

Any living thing

What is an organism?

100
These are organisms that make their own food.
What are producers?
200

Puffins preferred food source

What is a sand eel?

200
This has the ability to create its own food through the process of photosynthesis.
What is a plant?
200

Plants are producers that make their own food using this process

What is photosynthesis?

200

Animals release this gas into the air that is necessary for plants to live.

What is carbon dioxide?

300

Sand eels preferred food source

What is cold water plankton?

300
It is what is passed from organism to organism in a food chain.
What is energy?
300

These are organisms that cannot make their own food and so have to eat producers

What is a consumer?

300

Plants release this gas into the air that is necessary for animals to live.

What is oxygen?

400

Plankton --> Sand eel --> Puffin.  What is the indirect relationship in this food chain?

Plankton and puffins are indirectly related.

400
These animals eat plants and meat.
What are omnivores?
400

A group of the same kind of organism living together in the same area

What is a population?

400

Four interactions that can cause a population to change

What is other organisms, environment, food and reproduction

500

Where is the cold-water plankton going and why?

Cold-water plankton is moving to the north pole because the water is still cold there

500
These are animals that live in the soil and eat dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
500

The two types of relationships we have been talking about in food webs

What is direct and indirect?

500

Study of bacteria

What is microbiology?